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"Ugly White People explores representations of whiteness from twenty-first-century white American authors as they grapple with whiteness as its own construct rather than a wrongly assumed norm. Revealing white recognition of the ugly forms whiteness can take, Stephanie Li examines the tension between acknowledging whiteness as an identity built on domination and the failure to remedy inequalities that have proliferated from this founding injustice"--

Given its centuries-old origins and the inimitable mix of Semitic and Latinized vocabulary, the Maltese language benefits from a massive repertoire of proverbs and idioms that interpret life realities from the perspective of the common folks. The scope of this paper is to decipher a number of Maltese proverbs and idioms that encompass elements of political power and control. Each selected expression is probed in terms of political theory and contextualized from a sociological and anthropological standpoint. Such an analysis provides a cornucopia of diachronic and synchronic insights on how the Maltese perceive power and manipulation, judge the elites and the privileged, assess the art of politics and treat patronage and clientelism. "The wit of one and the wisdom of many" has organically led them to affirm their conviction that power manipulation, greed and elite collegiality, distortion of political virtues and exploitation of power games to the leverage of both the disadvantaged and the privileged are universal realities. In other words, these phenomena involving power and politics exist independently of the locals' perceptions or interpretations. ; peer-reviewed

'Satiric TV in the Americas' focuses on Latin American TV satire in order to understand their critical role in challenging the status quo, traditional journalism, and the prevalent local media culture. It introduces the notion of 'critical metatainment' as negotiated dissent, a key concept for the study of postmodern satire.

"More so than any politician or philosopher, it is William Shakespeare who can teach us about power. What it is, what it means, how it is gained, used, and lost. From the princes and kings of Henry IV to the scheming senators of Julius Caesar, politics fills his plays: brutal cunning, Machiavellian manipulation, fatal overreach, even the rare possibility of redemption. And it is these enduring narratives that can teach us how power plays out to this day. In The Hollow Crown, military scholar Eliot A. Cohen decodes Shakespeare's understanding of politics as theater, shedding light on how businesses, corporations, and governments work in the modern world. The White House, after all, is a court, with intrigues and rivalries just as Shakespeare described, as is an army, a department of state, or even a university. And, besides their settings, what most of all defines these various dramas are their characters, in all their ambition, cruelty, hope, and humanity. Cohen looks to the inspiring speeches of Henry V to better understand John F. Kennedy, to Richard III's darkness to plumb Adolf Hitler's psychology, and to Prospero from The Tempest for a window into George Washington's graceful abdication of power. Ultimately, through Cohen's incisive gaze, Shakespeare's work becomes a skeleton key into the lives of the leaders who, for good or ill, have made and remade our world"--

Poetry, mainly Urdu poetry, played a very significant role in India's freedom struggle. This book explores the poetic contributions going back centuries of colonial rule, which became songs of freedom and captured both the poignancy and fervor of revolution, protest, and hope. Urdu became one of the essential languages in colonial India, used by both political leaders and many young revolutionaries in speeches and writings as slogans for freedom and a call to action. Poets such as Josh Malihabadi, Firaq Gorakhpuri, Sahir, Makhdoom, Kaifi Azmi, Majaz, Majrooh, and Faiz Ahmad Faiz wrote highly patriotic poetry which was used not only to inspire and help mobilize people but also to offer criticism of existing socio-cultural practices in India and promote reform and equality. This work - a creative and selective translation of the book Hindustan Ki Tahriik-e Aazadi aur Urdu Shaa'yiri by Professor Gopi Chand Narang - includes English translations of poems from rare historical manuscripts as well as banned and witnessed poetry confiscated by the British. It looks at key events in India's struggle for freedom through the prism of literature, language, poetry, and culture while also delving into the lives of poets who became the voice of their generation. This book is an essential read for students and researchers of colonial and postcolonial literature, cultural studies, comparative studies, history, and South Asian literature and culture.

"A new account of tragedy and its fundamental position in Western culture. In this compelling account, eminent literary critic Terry Eagleton explores the nuances of tragedy in Western culture -- from literature and politics, to philosophy and theater. Eagleton covers a vast array of thinkers and practitioners, including Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin, and Slavoj Žižek, as well as key figures in theater, from Sophocles and Aeschylus to Shakespeare and Ibsen. Eagleton examines the political nature of tragedy, looking closely at its connection with periods of historical transition. The dramatic form originated not as a meditation on the human condition, but at moments of political engagement, when civilizations struggled with the conflicts that beset them. Tragedy, Eagleton demonstrates, is fundamental to human experience and culture."--Publisher's description.

Intro -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Part I: The Negro Renaissance -- The New Negro - Alain Locke -- Negro Art and America - Albert C. Barnes -- The Negro in American Literature - William Stanley Braithwaite -- Negro Youth Speaks - Alain Locke -- Fiction: -- The City of Refuge - Rudolph Fisher -- Vestiges - Rudolph Fisher -- Fog - John Matheus -- Carma, from Cane - Jean Toomer -- Fern, from Cane - Jean Toomer -- Spunk - Zora Neale Hurston -- Sahdji - Bruce Nugent -- The Palm Porch - Eric Walrond -- Poetry: -- Poems - Countee Cullen -- Poems - Claude McKay -- Poems - Jean Toomer -- The Creation - James Weldon Johnson -- Poems - Langston Hughes -- The Day-Breakers - Arna Bontemps -- Poems - Georgia Johnson -- Lady, Lady - Anne Spencer -- The Black Finger - Angelina Grimke -- Enchantment - Lewis Alexander -- Drama: -- The Drama of Negro Life - Montgomery Gregory -- The Gift of Laughter - Jessie Fauset -- Compromise (A Folk Play) - Willis Richardson -- Music: -- The Negro Spirituals - Alain Locke -- Negro Dancers - Claude McKay -- Jazz at Home - J. A. Rogers . -- Song - Gwendolyn B. Bennett -- Jazzonia - Langston Hughes -- Nude Young Dancer - Langston Hughes -- The Negro Digs up His Past - Arthur A. Schomburg -- American Negro Folk Literature - Arthur Huff Fauset -- T'appin - Told by Cugo Lewis -- B'rer Rabbit Fools Buzzard -- Heritage - Countee Cullen -- The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts - Alain Locke -- Part II: The New Negro in a New World -- The Negro Pioneers - Paul U. Kellogg -- The New Frontage on American Life - Charles S. Johnson -- The New Scene: -- The Road - Helene Johnson -- Harlem: the Culture Capital - James Weldon Johnson -- Howard: The National Negro University - Kelly Miller -- Hampton-Tuskegee: Missioners of the Masses - Robert R. Moton.